Happiness breeds self esteem, self esteem breeds confidence, confidence breeds learning. Education, confidence, self esteem, and happiness are all antithetical to fear and obedience. We’re much easier to rule if we’re stressed out. Plus, the real reason for return to office is real estate value. It has nothing to do with worker morale or productivity.
Well, strictly speaking, if your location didn’t change you’d be transported into empty space. So you wouldn’t have very much to worry about for long.
You should also know that one dose often isn’t enough, and they may re-overdose when it wears off, so at the very least stay with them until emergency services show up. Also, there is a moderate chance they will be violent when you resuscitate them, so be weary. Do not get on your knees for example, keep at least one foot planted so that you can rapidly extricate yourself if they come up angry.
If you were a purse snatcher, and your victim gave chase as you ran away. And you were shouting “Stop! Stop them!” The people on the street would be at least as confused enough to let you run past, as you’d both be shouting and calling for help. It’s weaponized projection. Double speak. It’s no more unintentional than using a Nazi salute and claiming it to be a gesture of endearment.
I’m not super familiar, but I believe it was based on a book?
15 - “It Ends With Us” Worldwide gross: $350,986,018 Reported production budget: $25 million
14 -“Twisters” Worldwide gross: $370,962,265 Reported production budget: $155 million
13 - “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Worldwide gross: $397,378,150 Reported production budget: $160 million
12 - “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” Worldwide gross: $404,544,199 Reported production budget: $100 million
11 - “Gladiator II” Worldwide gross: $406,644,901 Reported production budget: $250 million to $300+ million
10 - “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Worldwide gross: $451,100,435 Reported production budget: $100 million
9 - “Venom: The Last Dance” Worldwide gross: $476,368,152 Reported production budget: $120 million
8 - “Kung Fu Panda” Worldwide gross: $547,689,492 Reported production budget: $85 million
7 - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” Godzilla in " Worldwide gross: $571,750,016 Reported production budget: $135 million
6 - “Wicked” Worldwide gross: $586,301,620 Reported production budget: $150 million
5 - “Dune: Part Two” Worldwide gross: $714,444,358 Reported production budget: $190 million
4 - “Moana 2” Worldwide gross: $820,990,553 Reported production budget: $150 million
3 - “Despicable Me 4” Worldwide gross: $969,126,452 Reported production budget: $100 million
2 - “Deadpool & Wolverine” Worldwide gross: $1,338,073,645 Reported production budget: $200 million
1 - “Inside Out 2” Worldwide gross: $1,698,765,616 Reported production budget: $200 million
I think the threshold may be: adapted from comic book equals hero movie; adapted from novel equals sci fi.
I’m going to disagree with most of these comments. They don’t protect the prong so much as they protect the cord or other objects in the cords vicinity (painted surfaces, fragile surfaces, etc). The little plastic cap that covers tire stems on cars and bikes , while keeping it clean when installed, are primary to prevent chaffing issue on the inner tube whike shipped and stored; same thing with this prong shroud. They have holes in them as to not retain moisture I imagine.
Long story short, the prongs are metal and have corners. They are the strongest, “sharpest” thing in the box. The plastic isn’t protecting the prongs from us, it’s protecting us from the prongs.
It’s a race between junk food vs. an actual meal. Junk food is easy and self indulgent, real food requires time and effort. It doesn’t matter that junk food is a terrible value and lacks any nutrition. The Trump people choose junk, conservatives choose Trump people because the Trump people are mathematically mandatory to maintain their caste.
Oddly enough, in Washington state strip clubs do not serve booze. You can have nudity or alcohol, but not both.
What am I supposed to do with this semantically corrected information?
What do you wish to influence by saying this?
I’m not sure when “things have always been bad” or even “things used to be worse” became a valid responses to “things are bad”.
Politicians should always “buy votes” by acting in the interest of their constituents. The vote “buying” that should really concern you is called lobbying (see: citizens united), or in some cases outright bribery (see: Justice Thomas; also see: Trump literally selling pardons), or in some cases corruption to point of loss of life (see: the entire Iraq war and surrounding sweatheart contracting deals).
In summary: investing in the future by supporting education: good.Dismantling the EPA for short term political gain at the expense of multiple generations worth of irreparable harm: bad.
Or maybe he is too busy giving children cancer? Or maybe trapping children under rubble with the decaying remains of their family? Or maybe watching a child’s organs fail from malnutrition? Or maybe god is listening to their Spotify playlist “mating calls of the last of their species”? Or perhaps they’re watching their favorite reality tv show “active shooter event”, new episodes every week.
Probably not though. Who has time for such trivial concerns when there are more important issues in this world like who people like to kiss and what genitals they prefer.
Perhaps it’s not the right to harm ones self that’s the issue. Should you have the right to manufacture, sell, and profit from harm to others? Be it environmental, oral health, lung health, or heart health, cigarettes are a net negative to any citizenry. Seems in a governments best interest to try and greatly reduce and/or eliminate this leech.
Yes, because there are no extrajudicial killings in any prisons.
It’s me; I’m the person. I will clarify my stance. But focusing on my individual personal motivations and disregarding my overarching observations seems a little goal post manipulatey too. Even if my personal motivations fail to meet your scrutiny, the facts I present still remain: we are harming our planet, we are harming animals, and we are harming ourselves by eating meat. Which seems counterproductive at best and ripe for improvement. We can and should advance beyond this unnecessary and harmful indulgence. At the very least, we should consume a very small fraction of what we currently do.
Though I am a vegetarian, I used to eat meat. I acknowledge that it’s delicious, and I miss it sometimes. But I don’t eat it because I’ve determined that it would be logically inconsistent of me to do so.
In a vacuum I don’t think the “wrongest” part about meat is the moral/ethical implications of killing an animal to eat it. But I’m not talking about subsistence meat consumption here. Because that’s not how we eat meat on a human race scale anymore. We churn it out at disgusting scale. Imparting suffering and pollution into the world. We eat it primarily because we like it. And we eat too much of it because we are gluttonous. If your uncle shoots a buck with his bow and arrow, and make some summer sausage of it, I’m not really perturbed by that. I don’t love it, but I’m fine with it. Now, if your uncle gasses 10,000 chickens too fat and atrophied to stand, and heaps them into a pile and burns them, because the flock has an outbreak that exists solely due to our habitual over crowding of hellish enclosures, now we’ve got problems.
That being said, my personal chief concern is environmental. The scale at which we produce meat, and the methods we use to produce it, are completely untenable and are inconsistent with continued life on this planet. In 50 years we will have another 3 billion or so people on the planet, and we’re already operating way beyond our means with our current population. We need to change our habits or die.
My third priority is health considerations. This is probably my weakest argument, because eating meat isn’t imperically unhealthy. But again, we as humans don’t just eat meat from time to time, most of us are eating it every god damned day. We’re going to a wing joint and hoovering up 15 chickens worth of wings without even thinking about it. But even if people stop packing their colons with gristle and turning their blood to paste with double bacon cheeseburgers with bacon and a fried egg, they’ll find some other garbage to eat. We don’t value healthy living in my country which is a whole nother issue beyond the meat thing.
The thing we can’t say is that we didn’t know better.
It’s so frustrating to watch this regime try to kill the messenger. They are objectively wrong about so much. And get mad at the people who “point it out”. And so attempt to muzzle people who are factually correct. Which even if successful, is just going to mean they know less and less, and are increasingly wrong. Which will make them even madder, and muzzle more. Which will make them wrong even more. And so on. It’s the stupidest feedback loop.
It’s like they can’t drive, and rather than practice and learn, and actually become better drivers, they’re trying to change the roads themselves to accommodate their shortcomings. But they’re still going to be bad at driving no matter how much they change the roads. Meanwhile the roads are getting harder to use for everyone else. It’s only a matter of time until something really important catches fire and emergency services can’t put it out because the roads are all too fucked up.